Why we never win the lottery
More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by. More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript,...
Author: Angus Shaw
Well, well, Mr Kissinger…
Well, well, Mr Kissinger. The outlook might have looked different in 1974. Dire economic hardships persist in the developing world. Poor, inadequate harvests are again forecast in Zimbabwe this year....
The shocking truth about the Euro
Shock, horror. The euro has now fallen well below the U.S. dollar. A chocolate euro now costs more than the real coin is worth. As Zimbabwe abandoned the local dollar...
Bringing out our dead
Unless a demented co-pilot plunges his Airbus into the French alps with the loss of all on board, or Jihadists decapitate or burn alive their captives, we seldom reflect on...
Consequences of loss
I became acquainted with loss at an early age. Both my parents died when I was a child, my mother before my father. My father had once forgotten to collect...
